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  • the big cake was a marrunoth cake . And it had. the big CBS logo on it, the eye, the CBS eyes, as you know, that's on all their cameras, and it said, "The eyes--meaning the CBS eyes--of Texas and CBS are upon Nancy Hanschman, II whi ch was my mal den
  • be worthwhile if I came to Washington and we had some meeting before you made a definite commitment to me, because there's some things that I'd like to talk to you about. II I made a trip to Washington. I think it was a quick trip. I got to his office
  • , and ~ . CCPY WJ tUlRARY :' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] II More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3
  • , Alabama. I was born and I was inducted, or about to be inducted, as a draftee in World War II and elected to go into the aviation cadet program. I was selected for that; went into the services; had my first assignment in Miami, Florida, for basic
  • all around. Then someone from Houston, say Neiman-Marcus, you'd have to entertain them. I know, because you invited me! Hell, And you spent your own money! II did, because he was wealthy, his wife was, you see. He IIS0 you were public relations
  • it the next administration's going to do it in all likelihood, and it should be done now. Too much has been done to stop it now.~ I said, "All right, Bill, but you must understand that this is a very, very serious matter. II He sa"jd, "If the President
  • well." He said, 'IWell, do you suppose you could get them to come out against me? II I said, "What do you mean?'1 "I'll tell you what happened. He said, .A little while ago I came home one night and I said to Bird, 'I'm tired of voting the way I
  • and especially on the one you suggest. won't commit myself. II Tough a~ it is, I just will have to say I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEH II DATE: Nove=ber 29
  • Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker
  • with a bill. He looked around for help. Nobody offered any help, and he said, "With- out objection it is so ordered. II I looked on with absolutely amazement. That was my first experience with the dynamism, the force, the "vigah," as Kennedy would have
  • with General Curtis LeMay who made his home in Newport Beach, California. just to get started. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. with Mr. Johnson? General, Incidentally, I'm a World War II veteran so I have been following you for a long time. L: More
  • things, such as his saying to Mrs. Johnson, or repeating at dinner that he'd said it to Mrs. Johnson, "Bird, coming up these steps, I thought I was going to have another attack. II He was constantly concerned about his health for a while. M
  • different kinds He never did know for sure what they were focusing on. i I I I think maybe that was just us deep-in-the-mud bureaucrats and II I i I I • ! LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • a tinker's dam, and was resistant to it. a way of argui ng that's rather di fficul t. personam, everything else. radical. II I said, like it'll work. things. II He has He gets ad hom; nem, ad And he said, "Oh, you're just a goddamned We 11 , maybe so
  • of World War II were elected on the Republican side. It resulted in the Texas dominance of the House changing to the Republicans, and Joe Martin of Massachusetts replaced Speaker [Sam] Rayburn. And so I didn't have any contact that I can remember
  • and Title II; LBJ’s pre-presidential policy with regards to the Middle East; the National Defense Education Act in 1958.
  • anybody who enjoyed laughing as much as Jim did, and all of a sudden Jim leaned back and just let out this roar. they have passed an FEPC bi 11 . He said~ "Yes~ II M: McClennan would be up there in a moment if he thought that. H: So Jim and I
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOE.W. FLEMING, II INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Fleming's office, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington~ D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. Joe W. Fleming, the federal co-chairman of the Appalachian
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  • Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Joe W. Fleming II
  • Kennedy when he was in town?" We were recording these press conferences, so it turned out when we tried to play that back the whole thing was blurred, but you could hear "Jack Kennedy. II I ought to have said, "Oh, you mean Bobby Kennedy, just another
  • we'll get after it. II And then the kit was a black sock and a brown sock, not a pair but just one of order blanks. each~ one with a clock in it, a real fancy type, and So he set out three of them, and I thanked him. said, "That will be fifteen
  • mean said to Lyndon, friend. II IIWell, Lyndon, you've lost your best That was the way he was told. We were very close all my husband's [life], I mean, from the time we knew him. M: Did he come to see you immediately after that? W: Yes. M
  • like that. for? II So I figured another. • He said, "I don't know what for. John Cl inton wants to tal k to you. said, "I don't know what about." II And I said, "What Somebody over there named And I said, "What about?" And he Well, John
  • one day Charlie Maurine Ray, who was Charlie's secretary at that time and later she became secretary to Governor [John] Connally, came over to the Washington Club trying to find her boss. "Well, here it comes ,II I said. "Now, Charlie, what you
  • in for that particular column. Now, where was the connection of the influence that Lyndon had on President Evans? Well, that was it; that was an indication that-I don I t know, maybe he sa i d. II Prexy. there I s a bad story comi ng out in the College Star about you
  • : Well, with intermissions. I got to Parker County in 1903. did you graduate? from 1925 to 1927. I was Assistant Attorney General of Texas I was in the Army in World War II, and was a little more than two years in the European theater. Mc
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: October 21
  • Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: November 18
  • Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker
  • in Lubbock and that area. M: How strong was that? ii: As a matter of fact, the Building Trades quite strong. Council in Lubbock \
  • exactly what she said, "Peter, there's been static. II K: You know that accent of hers. You were not together then in this plane going down? He met you at the Ranch? H: He was at the Ranch. K: I see. H: Oh, yes. And you were meeting him
  • do it. II So Well, Mrs. Johnson didn't want anything on the basis of the unfinished one. It was very different from the one done in 1943 and by the by,. I always had in mind that the 1943 [one] could be done in oils, with his cape
  • to. were German. The other Ii ttle children , mos t of them And they were mighty sweet little kids. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • . was made to go ahead and file an application. II And So the decision There was no opposition. There was no competition because no other group in the community wanted a VHF television station. Vou must remember that there were UHF channels, LBJ
  • , wallpaper books. Mrs. Johnson finally said, "Well, I believe this is the one we ought to select. That was, say, number three. I hope Lyndon will like this." "We 11, fi ne, up to the Ranch on another matter. II [I sa i d] II I.~m goi ng back live
  • ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
  • would lead his forces in Iowa--Kennedy's. And I told him that I just couldn't do that, I was completely committed to Stevenson. And he said to me, can't win?" II~Je 11, don It you know that Stevenson I said, "Well, I can't argue that with you
  • minutes. Well. luckily, John Taber of New York, as soon as I was presented to this Conference Committee, said, "Mr. Hoyt, what do you think of the D.P.A.?II interrupted, of course. I was Instead of five minutes I got forty-five minutes, LBJ
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II I DATE: January 11
  • well kept secret. M: Yes it was. Were those real cuts, that extra billion or so, or were they shuffled figures? D: Well, there was some shuffling of figures to get down to the ninety-nine and a half. Then there was some more to get lower, but II d
  • Symington was gOing to be the vice presidential candidate. I asked him, II I remember one of them telling me; Well , which one's it going to be?' "It's going to be Symington." And he said, I remember a good deal of surprise LBJ Presidential Library
  • . And I don't believe that anything which the Foreign Service posts or officers will do really helps that much. II Ergo, the Foreign Service is too big; now. wedon't want any new jobs; and Pm not satisfied with any justification you give for commercial
  • , "I'm gOing to get them. I'm smarter than they are." Then he elaborated and said, "I'm going to offer fvlorse a job that he won't refuse, and it wi 11 rui n him. II That job was a job to be the negotiator in the airline mechanics strike, which